Clattertron

[dc]A[/dc]s the years go on, I try different things to build readership. Consistency is my favorite tactic: a new comic every Monday. My blogging however, has not benefited from the same consistency as of late (unless you count Inktober, but I don’t because it was a special thing).

(An aside: I want to get back to regular blogging, even if it is only every Tuesday at the very least.)

But, beyond consistency, I’m trying another method starting this month: decentralizing.

The Too Long/Didn’t Read of it is: putting full comics on Tumblr and Twitter.

I’m a Tumblr, you’re a Tumblr.

I’ll still only post links on Facebook and Google+, for now, but posting my full comics on Tumblr and Twitter is something I kept going back and forth on since I started.

In the beginning, I did post my full comics on Tumblr. Then, after reading various posts about why I shouldn’t, I stopped. The main reason was: leeching page views from my main site.

I certainly understood. I’m not a fan of creating content for other websites (this was part of the reason I stopped using LiveJournal several years ago).

But, as a publisher, I need to get my stuff in front of as many eyes as possible. I also need to go ‘where the people are.’ Lots of people use Tumblr and Twitter, and both sites are very image heavy.

I figured, a month or two of trying this won’t hurt—and if anything, it will save me work. I won’t have to craft teaser images for Tumblr and Twitter.

Do I go on from there? Do I post my comics on Pinterest? Maybe.

I don’t just post the comic on Tumblr or Twitter by itself. I write a quick summary and include links to the comic’s post and my main site. I also have URLs on the image too. Sure this doesn’t stop someone from editing the image and reposting it without any links, but they could do that from clattertron.com anyway.

When it comes to building readership, you need to experiment. So, here we go.

Here’s my Tumblr and the Clattertron Tumblr. Give ’em a Follow if you want.